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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1990
Page
3
Moscow signals openness to healthy forces for talks with the Azerbaijani Popular Front while Baku hosts a curfew protest. The central government hints at ending the southern republic’s military curfew and faces secession pressure from the front.
A tornado ripped through a Centenary trailer park early Thursday injuring 24 people. A boy was freed after a man lifted the mobile home faster than the debris, saving him. No fatalities were reported. Bush nominates John Dunne for top Justice Civil Rights post in a yearlong vacancy.
A University of Pennsylvania study released by Annenberg finds children's Saturday morning cartoons show an average of 26.4 violent acts per hour, up from 18.6 before 1980, while prime time maintains 5–6 acts hourly. Researchers link deregulation in the 1980s and networks’ action oriented programs to the trend.
London AP reports Ava Gardner the Hollywood icon died at 67 at her west London home after illness with pneumonia. Friends Burt Lancaster and Donald Sinden recall her beauty and talent while noting her troubled love life and six decades spanning career from The Killers to The Barefoot Contessa.
CDC scientists say this winter’s flu season has reached epidemic status with 7.6 percent of deaths in 121 cities attributed to influenza or pneumonia. Eighteen states report widespread flu, 17 regional, 13 sporadic, with Iowa in the regional category. The 7.6 percent rate is the highest since 1981-82 and above the epidemic threshold of 6.7 percent.
President Bush unveiled a $10.5 billion drug strategy aiming to hit traffickers with tougher laws and expanded prisons while pledging to do everything that works. The plan earmarks relief for five hard hit regions and contrasts with a Biden proposal to boost treatment spending and focus on addicts.
A severe storm with winds up to 110 mph battered southern England and five countries, killing at least 62. Britain reported 39 dead, with 11 in the Netherlands, six in France, five in Belgium and one in West Germany. A Paluel reactor chimney collapse prompted immediate shutdown and hazard monitoring.
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